sjar Chapter 313 She Didn't Make a Move
Chapter 313 She Didn't Make a Move
Chapter 313 She Didn't Make a Move
Upon hearing this, Yan Xun glanced at Xie Qingdu's expression and saw that the other seemed to be in a daze, not pondering the meaning of Shu Fan's words.
"How did you come to have any connection with Yin Sha?" Yan Xun asked.
"At a funeral," Shu Fan said cryptically.
She already knew that Xie Qingdu was the true form of Yin Sha, so naturally she couldn't talk about too many details in front of him.
"So it was you who appeared at the villa that day?" Yan Xun guessed.
Based on his previous deduction, besides Fang Shuo and others, there was another stranger in the villa. At the time, he thought it was Duan Songen, but now, judging from Shu Fan's words, that person might be her.
Shu Fan nodded.
“I can understand what they’re going through,” Yan Xun said.
Those people with buzz cuts wanted to destroy the evidence, while Fang Shuo in the story was full of methods to become famous and had been completely brainwashed by the master.
Yan Xun also thought of a detail, "In your memory, who made the first move?"
“Cun Tou and Fang Shuo,” Shu Fan said, “I made up my mind after I saw them take action.”
Yan Xun felt that Shu Fan couldn't possibly have gone alone. "Was Duan Songen there at that time?"
"I'm here too," Duan Songen confirmed Yan Xun's guess.
"As far as I remember, they were the ones who started it."
"Who goes first and who goes last?" Yan Xun asked.
According to both sides, the crew-cut guy said he saw Fang Shuo make the first move, which is why he decided to strike. Fang Shuo's version of events was exactly the opposite. If this wasn't a "murder mystery game," it could be explained that they wanted to shift the blame to each other. But in a murder mystery game, arguing about who did the bad thing first doesn't seem to make much sense.
“I think the guy with the buzz cut struck first,” Shu Fan said.
"Impossible!" the crew-cut man immediately jumped out. "Fang Shuo clearly attacked first."
Fang Shuo couldn't sit still any longer. "What's the point of lying now?" he said to the crew-cut man. "What I saw was you."
"And you?" Yan Xun asked Duan Songen.
“I looked at the buzz cut in that order, then Fang Shuo,” Duan Songen said.
The man with the buzz cut looked annoyed. "I wasn't lying."
Yan Xun didn't think that the crew-cut man would lie at this point. If what he said was true, it only proved that there was something wrong with his memory of the villa.
“We should have gone home,” Shu Fan said to Yan Xun.
"But I still want to ask the master how to completely get rid of those things."
"The master told Song En to leave first," Shu Fan said.
"He told me in detail about Duan Songen's family's rise to power and why the other party would provoke those things." Shu Fan didn't look at Duan Songen when he spoke.
He patted me on the shoulder and said that as long as Duan Songen was still around, those things would always come back to haunt him.
He said it was the same for me as for Duan Songen.
“My constitution is special. With just a little magic, I can prevent Duan Songen from being entangled by those things.”
“I know what he meant,” Shu Fan said, “but I wasn’t interested at the time.”
"But then something even more terrifying happened around me."
“Those things have really completely haunted me.” She looked at the ceiling. “Whenever I lie down, those things are watching me from the ceiling, the floor, and the window.”
"So you did it?"
"I asked the master if there were any other possibilities, other ways."
"The master said no."
Upon hearing this, Yan Xun suddenly realized something, "You spread the news that Du Yun was going home to recuperate, not just because you were collaborating with the master."
"Another reason was to help Shu Fan cover this up?"
Duan Songen sat next to Shu Fan, her head resting on Shu Fan's shoulder, looking at her fingernails. "Almost there."
"Fang Shuo is reckless; the crew-cut guy is his relative."
"He can manipulate Shu Fan with ease."
"I originally thought that once this matter was over, Shu Fan could completely cut off all contact with him, but I didn't expect that old bastard to trick me like this."
Yan Xun thought to himself that the master probably felt that Duan Songen knew many of his secrets and wanted to use Shu Fan to eliminate future troubles, so he used similar rhetoric to bewitch the other party.
"So who killed whom in the end?" Yan Xun asked curiously.
“I originally thought that rather than being manipulated by the master for the rest of my life, I might as well just kill her,” Duan Songen said casually. “But in the end, I didn’t do it.”
“I think it was my fault; I shouldn’t have introduced her to the master.”
"That old man is no good."
"So I thought, since I have nothing to miss anyway, I might as well let her have peace of mind."
"But I regret it." These were the words of Shu Fan.
“I think I made a mistake from the beginning. I shouldn’t have listened to the master’s words and actually tried to sever the Yin energy,” Shu Fan said to Yan Xun.
"So in the end, Duan Songen killed me, but she didn't do it."
Yan Xun paused for two seconds, "What do you mean she killed you, but she didn't do it?"
"Did you run into it yourself?"
"The knife was in her hand," Shu Fan said, "but in the end..."
She made a hugging motion, saying, "I bumped into it myself."
“That’s probably why our house doesn’t completely betray our friendship,” Duan Songen said.
Yan Xun looked at the two of them and asked, "Did you two really have to take action back then?"
Both the crew-cut man and Fang Shuo had the intention to kill someone, but judging from what Shu Fan and the other man said, they both regretted it in the end. So why didn't they stop in time?
“I had already done those wrong things in the villa,” Shu Fan said. “There was no turning back.”
“Since that’s the case, I think we should grant Song En’s request.”
She was referring to the master's words that if she wanted those things to stop haunting Duan Songen, she could only use people close to her as sacrifices.
“I just shared my thoughts,” Duan Songen said, “but neither of us knows what the other is really thinking.”
"This is the secret of our house," Shu Fan concluded.
“Since we’re being so open, can you also tell us the secrets of your house?” Duan Songen asked.
“My secrets can’t be heard by the people in my house,” the crew-cut man said.
"It's simple for me to tell you the secret." The man with the buzz cut pointed at Xie Qingdu and the muscular man. "The two of them should leave this meeting room first."
Since he was the homeowner and had said so, Xie Qingdu and the muscular man had no choice but to leave the meeting room.
Seeing that Xie Qingdu was offline, the crew-cut man immediately breathed a sigh of relief and then recounted everything that had happened in the villa, followed by Du Yun and Lin Wen's family.
After revealing the secrets of her family, Lin Wen emphasized one more point.
"By the way, I'm not an NPC."
"I am indeed a player."
"My identity might be a misleading option in the instance settings."
To prevent others from disbelieving her, she specifically mentioned a few things that only players knew, such as the live stream, the forum, and forming a bond with a mysterious being... When she mentioned forming a bond, she paused slightly, and Yan Xun understood that she was hinting at something to him.
It seems the old man truly regarded the Sun God as his protector, confirming Yan Xun's suspicions once again.
After everyone else finished speaking, Yan Xun began to reveal the secret of his family.
Shu Fan frowned upon hearing this, "Why is this master swindling and cheating people everywhere?"
"The wording used is fairly accurate."
"Aren't all scammers like this?" Yan Xun asked, casually mentioning that he had met the master and Xie Qingdu when he was in high school.
"You mean at that time, Xie Qingdu already knew that his relatives had ill intentions towards him?" Shu Fan asked.
"Then why is he still being taken advantage of by his own relatives?"
This is also what Yan Xun wants to know.
Before seeing those memories, he always thought that Xie Qingdu was unaware that he had been used by his relatives, and that working at the funeral company was a mistake made by chance.
It's a pity Xie Qingdu isn't here now, and even if he were, we probably wouldn't be able to get any key information out of him.
"Does this mean we won't be able to complete side quest 2?" Fang Shuo asked.
Even though Yan Xun already knew some clues about Shu Fan's family, it wasn't considered complete because several key points were missing.
"Anyway, I'm not counting on the hidden quests," the crew-cut man interjected. "I might as well just get through the 15 days and then leave the instance."
"I have something to share with everyone regarding this," Yan Xun said, tapping the table a few times.
He shared Zhan Xiangren's experience and the main system's response with everyone.
"...So, if you want to leave us, you should complete the hidden mission," Yan Xun said. "Otherwise, we'll all be doomed when the 15 days are up."
Lin Wen looked at Yan Xun, and then at Lou Yanchuan beside him.
She always felt that Lou Yanchuan seemed completely unhurried.
"Do you already know how to leave?" she asked cautiously.
"I don't know," Yan Xun said. "It feels like we're missing some information."
"But why do I feel like you've got this in the bag?" Fang Shuo asked, puzzled. "The person next to you doesn't seem worried at all."
"Because being anxious won't help," Lou Yanchuan said.
Yan Xun didn't speak. He felt that Lou Yanchuan wasn't in a hurry at all because the other party had some kind of item that could force him to leave the instance—Li Wu had mentioned it back then in the Human-Cat instance.
However, there was no need to explain this to Fang Shuo, so he tacitly accepted Lou Yanchuan's statement.
"The question now is, who exactly am I referring to with my secret?" Shu Fan asked. "Xie Qingdu? Or that master?"
Before the master surfaced and saw "My Secret," all the players' reactions were that it pointed to Xie Qingdu.
Because Xie Qingdu has more or less contact with each family.
However, with the appearance of the master, players discovered that he was closely connected to the secrets of every family, and that he had instigated everyone.
“There’s one more thing,” Du Yun said. “The crew-cut guy said that Xie Qingdu called me from the villa that day.”
But I didn't answer.
"I can't remember why he called me."
"Does he know something and want me to be his inside man?"
"Or is there some other reason?"
Yan Xun thought for a moment and decided to follow the accounts of the three parties.
The first people to appear in the villa were a group of people from the dormitory. Then, after Xie Qingdu's death, the master and Fang Shuo from the neighboring villa arrived. Shu Fan and Duan Songen said they were also present at the time.
"When did you arrive?" Yan Xun asked Shu Fan and the other man. "Were you also at the master's villa at the time?"
"Not here," Fang Shuo said immediately.
“I remember when I went there, there was only the master there.”
“Logically, that secret technique should require five people to work on it,” Fang Shuo said, “but just like last time I couldn’t remember who else was involved.”
"All I can think of now is myself and the crew cut."
"Even though you've said that you and Shu Fan were there at the time, I still don't remember that part."
“Shu Fan and I also visited the master at that time,” Duan Songen said, “but we were on the second floor of the villa.”
"We went to the site only after receiving instructions from the master."
"Wait a minute." Yan Xun reached out his hand. "You said you were on the second floor of the villa at the time."
Why did you go looking for him?
"It sounds like you knew back then that Xie Qingdu would die that night?"
Duan Songen and Shu Fan exchanged a glance. "In our memory, the master said that day was a good opportunity to sever the Yin energy, and that if we missed this chance, there might not be another one."
"So we were told to be on the second floor of the villa in advance, and once we received the instructions, we would set off immediately."
Looking at it this way, the murder that happened that night was not an accident at all? Yan Xun wondered, "Didn't you feel anything was wrong that day?" He asked the crew-cut man.
"...I felt really angry and furious when I heard that Xie Qingdu had worked at a funeral home." The crew-cut man frowned. "I felt like I couldn't control my actions at all."
He charged forward, fists clenched.
He paused for a moment, then hesitated, "Could I have been tricked?"
The more the man with the buzz cut talked, the more he realized something was wrong, and finally he muttered a curse under his breath.
Yan Xun propped his head up with one hand as he pondered.
He and Xie Qingdu clearly knew each other in high school, so why did they lose all contact after going to university?
Even when his own grandmother mentioned him at the Anxin Nursing Home, Xie Qingdu was completely unfamiliar with him.
Although the name change was one of the reasons...
His name was changed by a master after his parents sought his help.
In that memory, when he met the master, Ning Hengyuan directly told him his new name—proving that he had planned this all along.
Thinking that there is strength in numbers, Yan Xun also brought up the matter.
"So why did I lose contact with Xie Qingdu after I went to university?" Yan Xun said.
"Shouldn't we maintain more connections after starting university?"
"You didn't update that memory?" Du Yun guessed.
“I changed my name after graduation,” Yan Xun said. “But Xie Qingdu was still unfamiliar with the name Yan Xun when he heard it from my grandmother.”
“If we’re in contact, there’s no way he wouldn’t know my new name.”
"That's very strange." Du Yun stroked his chin. "Could something have happened in the middle that caused you to break off your friendship?"
“I think there’s another possibility,” Lin Wen said. “You’re dead.”
“But I wasn’t exactly a living person to begin with,” Yan Xun said.
According to Ning Hengyuan, he was practically a ghost, not really alive—nobody knew how he faked his medical exam.
Um……?
Yan Xun suddenly sat up straight.
"Are all the children born on Dr. Du's side able to live normal lives?" he asked Du Yun.
According to Du Yun's mother, the children who were conceived through Dr. Du's wombs were all ghost fetuses without human form, and they could not maintain their human form once they stopped taking the medicine prescribed by Dr. Du.